No matter what happens from here on out, having someone like Trump get as far as he has in this election is a very ugly stain on America. It's unforgiveable for people to back him. And when people say "yeah, both choices are awful" that's about as true as saying "tomorrow i'll either have to cut my toe nails or get gonorrhea. I dont feel like either". One is immeasurably worse than the other.

No matter what happens from here on out, having someone like Trump get as far as he has in this election is a very ugly stain on America. It's unforgiveable for people to back him. And when people say "yeah, both choices are awful" that's about as true as saying "tomorrow i'll either have to cut my toe nails or get gonorrhea. I dont feel like either". One is immeasurably worse than the other.

Today he's started claims that the election is going to be rigged. Pre-empting his loss and the chaos he'll follow it up with.

It's predictable as all hell.

It's also genuinely disturbing. People who believe in the democratic process and respect the will of the electorate do not do this. Ever. I maintain that those who describe Trump as a fascist are misusing the term, but he sure has an authoritarian or dictatorial streak and these sorts of pronouncements demonstrate it.

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Originally Posted by Zoomerang96

No matter what happens from here on out, having someone like Trump get as far as he has in this election is a very ugly stain on America. It's unforgiveable for people to back him. And when people say "yeah, both choices are awful" that's about as true as saying "tomorrow i'll either have to cut my toe nails or get gonorrhea. I dont feel like either". One is immeasurably worse than the other.

Yep. I really don't get the hugely negative narrative about Clinton either. No, I'm not on board with her hawkish foreign policy. If the US had a viable and genuinely left-wing, social democratic option, I would support it in a heartbeat (I don't think Sanders was it - his left-wing credentials were overstated - and the paltry excuse for a Green Party in the US sure as shit isn't it either). But as it stands, the US has a choice between a woman who possesses strong qualifications and obvious competence for the job, and a man with no apparent qualifications who reacts like a schoolyard bully to any form of disagreement with him, cannot articulate policies, and shows almost no interest in anything beyond his own ego. To say this is an attempt to choose the lesser of two evils is farcical. This is a choice between a woman who can do the job and a man who not only cannot, but will actively destroy the US and negatively affect the globe.

Anybody who thinks Trump will make America great again has neither considered his temperament nor the implications of literally anything he has proposed to do. He will make America a global laughingstock, or - for its patriots, even worse - a global irrelevancy. Trump will turn the US into a has-been.

__________________"Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard

Ian McCulloch the U2 fan:
"Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat."
"And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth."